Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-18
King Kalakua,s Subjects Inclined to
Nibs Has Fortified
the Palace.
All Glasses and Conditions, Even 70 the
Chinese, Openly Opposed to
His Extravagant Way
Of Doing Things.
The King Dare Not Go Outside Of His
Entertainments without His
Body Guard With
Him.

Honolulu brought here by the steamer
Australia shows that thegovernment there
has been searching for the secreted arms
on the ground of public safety. It is
claimed that the people have become exas-
perated at the action of the King in forti-
tying the palace walls and taking in sup
plies OF ammunition there, and that the
American and British residents have ap-
pealed to their respective governments for
protection, and asked that q man-of-war
be ordered to Honolulu. It was even ru
mored that the revololuticn had begun.
Rev. DR.. J. A. Crugan, who has been in
Honolulu several years and returned on
the Australia, said: when left Honolu-
lu on the 7th inst. that place was in a con.
dition of seething discomfort, but the King
had not been deposed. Whathas occurred
since, of course, I don't know. nor do I
believe anyone else has any accurate infor-
agreed that some change ought and must
at once take place in the make OF the gov
ernment.
am told have been armiug themselv YES with
rifles and revolvers. A rifle corps has also
been organized by the white population Of
the island nominally for the purpose of
target practice. The Chinese are the most
discontented people in Honolulu. There
are two Chinese companies there, one paid
the king $4,000 for opium monopoly. 3d.
600 OF which was turned over to the treas.
ury and the remaining so, 900 was retained
by bis Majesty as backsheesh. Another
company also paid 75, 900 to the impecun-
ious King. During the reign of the fourth
King, Kamehamehas, a bill was presented
to him for his approval by which q re-
eular civic Government was to have been
established. In a furiou mood he tore the
document containing the eradicalinnovatiop
into pieces remarking as he did so that he
would have no man in Honolulu
BIGGER THAN HIMSELF.
OF $4,000 inhabitants in the capital
about 5000 are white. During my stay on
the islands l was pastor of the Fourth
street Congregational church, which was
one of the principal churches at which En-
glieh and Americans attended on Sundays.
have come to the Pacific slope to remain
and shall not return to Honolulu. j. D.
Spreckles, president of the Oceanic Steam
ship company, and who has not been On
friendly terms with the Hawaiian govern
ment, owing to business conflicts, said:
affairs are in almost a revolutionary
stage on the islands. The extravaganza
and mismanagement of King KaIakauka
have created feeling of great dissatisfac-
ton among the foreign residents and
would not be surprised at some vessel
bringing in news of such state of affairs"
The palace, he says, has been barricaded
and supplied with arms and ammunition,
and citizens of other countries had gone so
far as to call on their home governments
to send
MEN OF WAR FOR THEIR PROTECTION.
As instances of the Kings extravaganza
Spreckles stated that $40, 900 was expend-
ed on the funeral OF his sister, $50, 900 in
fitting out man of war tub of steamer
which had originally been purchased for
$40, 900, the remaining $50, 900 being ex-
pended on her equipments. In responce to
inquiries Spreckles said the roads on the
islands were in bad condition and that
the harbors needed dredging, none OF which
necessary improvements were receiving at
tention. He said in case of revolution a
republic would probably be set up by a
mariaposa, which will arrive in
about two weeks. Important news is ex-
pected, for it is feared that matters
WILL SOON REACH CRISIS.
The Chinese, OF whom there are between
1000 and 5000 on the entire island,
are among the bitt. rest enemies of the
A large number Of private
letters received here from Honolulu describe
the condition OF affairs somewhat in detail.
They state that King Kalakaua never goes
out now without body guard and seldom
even ventures from the palace at all. The
palace is situated in the heart of the city.
A large supply of powder and other ammu.
milton has been stored in the palace and
portfolios have been made in the walls sur
rounding the royal home, behind which
cannon stand. In short, the kings exist
BIZ ce ID said to be not unlike that of the
Gar of Russia on small scale. The whites
have organized rife corps to the public
while two more companies are
to exist. Everything is unsettled
and trade is at standstill in consequence.
The exports alone from San Francisco to
Hawaii last month were $42, 900 less than
n May of last year. whereas it had been
ex pected that inter ocean commerce would
steadily increase. Writers acknowledge
that the country has plenty of laws, but
they are openly violated.